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...summa cum laude in 1933 from Greenville's Furman College, founded by his great-great-grandfather Richard Furman. He went north to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1936. During World War II, he served in naval intelligence in the Pacific. In 1946, Haynsworth married the former Dorothy Merry Barkley, who had had two sons by a previous marriage. (The couple have no children of their own.) Haynsworth raises prize camellias in the greenhouse behind his $100,000 Greenville mansion, and in the evenings likes to listen to Beethoven, Brahms, Bach and Mozart. An Episcopalian, he attends Greenville...
...conservatives of holding up the tax bill so that they could "blackmail" him into approving cuts-almost all of which would come out of his cherished Great Society programs. A President had not used such strong tones with Congress since 1944, when F.D.R. vetoed another tax bill* and Alben Barkley, tears streaming down his face, resigned as Senate majority leader to protest the President's words-only to be re-elected unanimously the next...
...delicate operation to save Howe's life after he suffered a fractured skull during the 1950 season. Five years ago, Montreal's Lou Fontinato crashed into the boards with such force that he broke his neck. Fontinato never played again-nor did Detroit's Doug Barkley, who was blinded in the right eye by an opponent's stick in 1966. Last year, players from the six teams that then made up the N.H.L. missed 662 games because of injuries...
Died. Jane Hadley Barkley, 52, widow of Alben, a comely St. Louis secretary who caught the Veep's fancy on a visit to Washington in 1949 (he was then 71, she 38), suddenly found herself swept up in one of the most popular and public courtships in history as her "Punkin" shuttled between his Washington desk and her St. Louis home until he won her hand four months later; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...Liberty. The war between Capitol Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue came to a climax with F.D.R.'s veto, over the desperate pleas of Democratic Senate Leader Alben W. Barkley, of a 1944 tax bill. Barkley's one-vote election as majority leader over Mississippi's Pat Harrison had come only with the all-out help of the Administration, and he had felt obligated ever since. But this was too much. Barkley resigned from his leadership post in a highly emotional Senate moment. Senate Democrats promptly caucused and unanimously re-elected Barkley-now, they thought, a free...